Colour, for Maya Klingelschmidt, is non-negotiable. “I can actually be quite psycho-rigid about colour,” the designer admits. Material is where that control begins to loosen.
FASHION & BEAUTY
Backstage at Lignes de Fuite
During Montréal Fashion Week this past Saturday, LIGNES DE FUITE took over Atelier Textile for ON SHOW, bringing nine independent designers together across three runway presentations.
Montréal Fashion Week Refuses a Single Definition of Montréal Style
Every fashion capital has its mythology. Paris has couture, Milan its polished sensuality, London its collision of heritage and the avant-garde.
‘DIVA’ Brings Canadian Fashion to the AGO Art Bash 2026
At the Art Gallery of Ontario, the last analogue decade unfolds through the photographs of a musician who spent it on the road.
Renée SS27 Turns Barbicide Blue Into a Portal for Reinvention
There is something inherently otherworldly about Barbicide. The electric-blue disinfectant, familiar from comb jars on salon counters and barbershop stations, is at once clinical and strangely luminous: an ordinary chemical that makes the tools submerged within it appear briefly suspended in another dimension.
STUDIO RYBKO Finds Its Form
Jewellery often arrives already carrying meaning: a declaration, an inheritance, a marker of intimacy or status. At STUDIO RYBKO, meaning begins somewhere more elemental; with form.
ONGNA Carries Craft Forward
The colour of ONGNA’s Destroyer Jeans began with a stone Angana Ananya found beside Kyoto’s Kamo River. She had already decided on the silhouette, but the stone’s muted, washed-out surface gave the design its tonal direction.
Process Visual’s X Refuses Resolution
Fashion depends, to some degree, on the disappearance of its own labour. By the time a garment is presented as finished, the traces through which it was cut, fitted and assembled have usually been removed.
Nii Hai Is Growing Up With Its Girls
There is a particular problem that confronts any independent fashion label fortunate enough to survive its emergence: how to grow without becoming generic.
FACE VALUE: LORENA BAY / gata.ilusion
Beauty has never been a neutral category. It functions instead as a shifting system of recognition, produced through environments, cultural repetition, and the increasingly accelerated feedback loops of visibility.